BARTOW COUNTY, Ga. — Investigators are trying to figure out what caused a nearly 30-car pileup in Bartow County Sunday evening.
It backed up traffic for more than five miles on Interstate 75 northbound near Exit 285.
Sunday afternoon, emergency medical technicians said 14 people were hurt in the crash, but there were no serious injuries.
Channel 2 Action News Twitter follower Danny Williams sent a photo that shows an ambulance and fire truck at the scene.
Hayden Robbins shared another picture of drivers who stepped out of their vehicles and were standing among the backed-up traffic.
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Channel 2’s Rikki Klaus talked to Kenneth Bohannon who ran out of gas while waiting for the wreckage to clear.
“I coasted probably from 75 into here. I mean, I was out of gas. I was having to do my car like that where the pump would pick it up, you know?” Bohannon said.
EMTs say heavy rain caused the vehicles collided.
Klaus talked to one woman who said she was sitting in the crash traffic for three hours when her car overheated.
The cause is still under investigation.
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27-car pileup closes lanes of I-75NAt least one lane is back open after a 27-car pileup closed all the northbound lanes of I-75 north in Bartow County at exit 288.
Posted by WSB-TV on Sunday, August 21, 2016
UPDATE: Bartow Co EMS says at least 12 people taken to hospital w/ non-life threatening injuries in nearly 30-car wreck on I-75N. @wsbtv
— Rikki Klaus (@RikkiKlaus) August 21, 2016
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